Joe Conason - Murdoch Empire Colludes With ‘Liberal Media’ To Promote ‘Clinton Cash’

[OKNancy]

http://www.nationalmemo.com/murdoch-empire-colludes-with-liberal-media-to-promote-clinton-cash/

Murdoch Empire Colludes With ‘Liberal Media’ To Promote ‘Clinton Cash’

Today’s New York Times reports that the paper of record — along with the Washington Post and Fox News — will follow “story lines” from a forthcoming book to be published by Rupert Murdoch’s HarperCollins imprint titled Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich. Strange bedfellows, those two “liberal media” outlets and the Murdoch empire — except for the smoldering grudge that both newspapers have nurtured against the Clintons ever since their “Whitewater is Watergate” obsession crashed and burned almost 15 years ago.

Still, the partnership between HarperCollins, Fox News, and the nation’s two leading newspapers amounts to an open declaration of war in a presidential election, and the consummation of an alliance with a totally disreputable “news” conglomerate. This is the journalistic equivalent of the Hitler-Stalin pact — and a very disturbing decision by Times and Post executives.

The Times describes the paper’s agreement with author Peter Schweizer as “exclusive,” although it is hard to see how exclusive it can be if the Post and Fox are chasing the same accusations. The Times article also flatters Schweizer, a Breitbart contributor and former George W. Bush speechwriter, for the book’s “focused reporting.” Since the paper has agreed to promote Clinton Cash with that “exclusive” arrangement, however, it isn’t easy to accept at face value the judgment of the reporter, Amy Chozick, who was assigned to hype it.

Naturally I look forward to reading Clinton Cash, but in the meantime readers may want to consider some of Schweizer’s earlier journalism, including a 2008 work suggestively titled Makers and Takers, in which he claims to have proved the following assertions about red and blue Americans:

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[samsingh]

1. i am looking forward to see how murdoch's empire handles the contradition of its

right wing bullshit and some support for the Clinton's.

it's going to be fun to watch fox falling over itself.

Good for the Clinton's to make this happen.

[LondonReign2]

2. Liberal media?

Sure wish we had one

[NYC_SKP]

3. We've known these things. I think we should be looking for a candidate with less to criticize.

How bad do things need to be for us to see the light and say, "Hell, no. She ain't worth all this drama."?

[OKNancy]

4. Oh yes, let the assholes and liars win... that's the ticket

You can write the same thing over and over, but it isn't going to make it happen.

[NYC_SKP]

9. All she has is a perception of electability. Does she appeal to independents, republicans?

Oh hell no she doesn't!

Those who hate her will come out in droves while many registered Dems will just sit it out in disgust.

Her negatives are too great, the skeletons (even if half are untrue) in her closets are a trainwreck waiting to happen.

If she really loved her country more than her own ambitions, she would withdraw and get behind Warren.

[pnwmom]

10. She only lost to Obama by a couple percentage points, and she was hugely popular in her state. n/t

[NYC_SKP]

14. The establishment rich one versus a black dude named "Hussein Obama". Yeah, close one.

[Gman]

6. A candidate with less to criticize?

I think that's over next to the unicorns.

[JaneyVee]

8. Known what things? The author is a rightwing hack with no credibility.

[KoKo]

5. Conason thinks NYT and WaPo are Liberal Media?

[misterhighwasted]

7. I believe putting "liberal media" in quotes is intended as sarcasm.

Conason is aware of the lie that media is liberal. A lie often told by Fox News.
In quotes is saying, ya sure, liberal media..haahaa.

I believe that is what he intended.
Conoson knows our media is far from liberal, thus the quotes.
How I read it anyway.

[KoKo]

13. Ah...I think you're right Didn't notice the quotes.

I was a big fan of his in the days when the Clintons were under attack from the RW and through the Monica stuff. I guess he's back to defending them again against whatever this new book says. I always agreed with him in the Clinton years when he exposed so many of the RW's lies about the Clintons. He was a regular read here at DU.

[misterhighwasted]

15. Yes I recall how he fought against the RW back then

I am so happy to see him again this time around.
I like the stuff he writes & Conoson is quick to debunk the lies of the RW.
Am a big fan of his.

[pnwmom]

11. The NYTimes helped to lead the charge against Bill Clinton AND for Bush's Iraq war.

This is consistent.

[Rex]

12. The NYT is forever tainted with the GOP. Fuck them.

Liberal media... AS IF.

[Scurrilous]

16. K & R